Grosvenor Prints

Tableau Comparatif de la Grandeaur des Planetes. Pl. IV.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some cockling from the tissue glue. Creased left bottom corner and some paper toning.
Transparency print depicting the sizes of planets, distance and orbit with explanatory text. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56894] £360.00 view all images for this item

Jupiter. De La Sphere. Figure XLVI.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress.
An illustration of Jupiter, shown above a rocky landscape. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56841] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mars. De La Sphere. Figure XLVII.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress.
A view of Mars above a beseiged city, as befits the planet named after the god of War. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56839] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Saturne. De La Sphere. Figure XLV.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress.
An illustration of Saturn, shown above an Italianate landscape. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56843] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Pythagoras. N.25 Magnus Philosophus tanta apud suos Auctoriate ut Auditoribus fuerit satis: Ipse dixit suis.
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Radcliffe M.D. Ob: Nov 1: .1714. Aetat: 64.
M V.dr Gucht Sculp [after Kneller].
Printed for Charles Rivington in St Pauls Ch. Yard [n.d., 1721].
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 80mm (5¾ x 3¼"), Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
A portrait of physician John Radcliffe (1652-171), Royal Physician to William and Mary, Founder of the Radcliffe Library and Hospital Oxford.
[Ref: 57201] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lunar Rainbow seen at Milbrook near Southampton, at 10 o'Clock at Night Oct.r 1810.
Engraved by White, from a a Drawing by Craig for the Gallery Gallery of Nature & Art.
London, Published by R. Wilkes, 89 Chancery Lane, Aug. 1. 1814.
Engraving. 125 x 205mm (5 x 8"), large margins.
A night-time rainbow, created by a bright moon.
[Ref: 57026] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Rainbow.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners, very small tear entering image. Small loss at bottom & top right.
Three rainbows over a cathedral city by a river. Plate 104 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56791] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Panoramic Plan of the Principal Rivers and Lakes.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie.
London, Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Data visulisation of river and lake sizes with key; from Reynolds series 'Introduction to Natural Philosophy', a companion to Reynolds's series of Popular diagrams of natural philosophy comprising of two hundred and fifty illustrations.
[Ref: 56877] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolaus Sandersonus. A.M. Matheseos Professor Cantabrigiae & R.S.S.
J. Vanderbanck pinx. An.o 1719 pro Martino Folkes. Arm.o Cui Tabulam humillime D. D. G. White.
Mezzotint. 360 x 245mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) holding an armillery sphere. Saunderson was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and was a prolific mathematician. He was a close friend of Isaac Newton's, who had held the same post at Cambridge, and is credited by some historians as the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem.
CS: 41 i of ii.
[Ref: 57215] £590.00

The earth's annual revolution round the sun, and its diurnal rotation on its axis. Showing its position on the first of every month.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie
Published by J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. Aug.t 6. 1851.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Light foxing.
Diagram showing why we have seasons with explanatory text.
[Ref: 56885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Diagram illustrating the earth's annual revolution round the sun, and its diurnal rotation on its axis. Showing its position on the first of every month.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie
Published by J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. Aug.t 6. 1851.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
Diagram showing why we have seasons with explanatory text.
[Ref: 56882] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A French crowd watching a comet.]
Bouchol [signed on stone.]
[Paris: n.d., c.1855.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 255 x 225mm. 10 x 9". With large margins a little grubby, else good.
A social satire showing a group of spectators, of all ages and both sexes, using telescopes and lenses to observe a comet in sky above. Little appears to be known about the artist/lithographer Bouchol; he illustrated some musical scores that are in the BNF collection.
[Ref: 27817] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Edwin Sidney [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire 1849.
[Ipswich: George Ransome, 1852.]
Lithograph. Printed area 330 x 245mm (13 x 9½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of Reverend Edwin Sidney (1798?-1872), Rector of Little Cornard in Suffolkfrom 1847 until his death, biographer and naturalist, who lectured at the Royal Institution and elsewhere. He helped Michael Faraday with his Ozone measurements. Among his books are: 'Electricity, its phenomena, laws and results' in 1843, 'Blights of the wheat, and their remedies' (1846) and 'The philosophy of food and nutrition in plants and animals' (1849). From the series 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum.'.
Wellcome: 1313.
[Ref: 57193] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A machine for shewing the sidereal, the equal, and the solar Time.] Pl. VII.
J. Ferguson inv. et delin. J. Mynde sc.
[London: James Ferguson, c.1756.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, as issued, binding folds.
A diagram of a machine designed by Scottish astronomer (1710-76), to demonstrate the different ways of measuring a turn of the Earth around its axis. From Ferguson's own work, ''Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles''. The title given comes from the text explaining the diagram, which is available in full from Project Gutenburg, at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60619/60619-h/60619-h.htm
[Ref: 56853] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Solar Eclipse] Luna velut fratri propius coniuncta, perisse Stultis videtur funditus, / Quae tamen admoti spectat quâ lumina Solis, / Longè refulget clarior. / Sic periisse pii vulgo qui morte videntur, / Absit perisse dixerim, / Ipso qui potiùs Christo propriore potiti, / Quod quaesierunt obtinent.
[Hendrik Hondius.]
[n.d., c.1599.]
Etching with engraving. 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate. Laid on paper at edges.
An illustration of a solar eclipse with eight lines of engraved verse, used as an allegory of the conflict of Protestants and the Catholic Church. From Hendrik Hondius's 'Icones virorum'.
[Ref: 56814] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Total Eclipse of the Sun Dec.r 22, 1870. Engraved from a Drawing made from the Original Negative Taken at Syracuse by Mr. Brothers. Negative No.5, exposed for 8 seconds just before the end of totality.
W.H. Wesley del. D.J. Pound, sculp.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"), with large margins. Mint.
The corona of the sun, as viewed from a telescope during a total solar eclipse; framed by a circular scale of degrees. The pearly and ghostly light is only seen during the brief period of totality when the Moon blocks the dazzlingly bright surface of the Sun. From the Royal Astronomical Society's 'Memoirs'.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 56811] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sun and Solar Phenomena.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie.
London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. Large image of the Sun with several sunspots, and smaller diagrams at the top showing the relationship of the Sun and Earth during the day and night and at different seasons. Small vignettes at the bottom give artistic renderings of a Transit of Mercury, The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape of Europe and an Annualar Eclipse. A bar down the left hand side of the main image shows the comparative size of the planets as seen from the Sun and a bar on the right shows the changing appearance of sunspots on different parts of its disc.
[Ref: 56889] £360.00

Systeme Solaire Orbites des Planetes d'apres les autorites le plus recentes. Pl. III.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
A transformation print of the Solar System. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56899] £380.00 view all images for this item

The Figure of the World According to the System of Ptolomee who holds that the Earth is unmoveable in the centre of ye World.
[after Philip Cluver.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 180 x 320mm (7 x 12½"). Binding folds, creases, edges ragged.
A plate comparing maps of the solar system according to Ptolomy, Copericus, Descartes and Brahe. From an English edition of Cluver's 'Introductio in universam geographiam...'.
[Ref: 56865] £160.00

Transparent Solar System, Displaying The Planets With Their Orbits, As Known At The Present Day. Derrived from the latest and best authorities.
[Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie]
London: Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.' Small hole in Saturn's tissue paper.
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A transformation print of the Solar System.
[Ref: 56883] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Principal Elements of the Solar System; from the Latest Observations by S. Dunn. Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 January 1774.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21¾"), very large margins top and bottom. Narrow lateral margins at sides.
A diagram illustrating the distances of the planets from the Sun and tables listing the 'Eccentricities, and Inclinations of the Orbits of the Planets' and 'The Perehelion Distances of the Comets'. From the first edition of ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea.
[Ref: 57112] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Scheme of the Solar System with the Orbits of the Planets and Comets belonging thereto, Described from Dr. Halley's accurate Table of Comets. Philosoph, Transact. No. 297. Founded on Sr. Isaac Newton's wonderful discoveries By W.m Whiston M.A.
Engrav'd by J. Senex.
Sold by John Senex Book, Map & Globe seller, at the Globe overg a.t St Dunstan's Church in Fleet street London [n.d., c.1712.]
Scarce engraving. 690 x 610mm (27¼ x 24"). Damaged, losing c. 40mm of text and publication line, split in fold.
A chart of the Solar System to the orbit of Saturn, with the paths of known comets, surrounded by engraved text.
[Ref: 57115] £350.00

A Scheme of the Solar System with the Orbits of the Planets and Comets belonging thereto, Described from Dr. Halley's accurate Table of Comets. Philosoph, Transact. No. 297. Founded on Sr. Isaac Newton's wonderful discoveries By W.m Whiston M.A.
Engrav'd by J. Senex.
[London: Thomas Bowles, Robert Sayer & John Bowles, c.1768.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 670 x 660mm (26¼ x 26"), Damaged, with loss.
A chart of the Solar System to the orbit of Saturn, with the paths of known comets, surrounded by engraved text.
[Ref: 57116] £350.00

Astronomy: The Solar System. Plates XII - XIII
Engraved by W. Hughes, London.
Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dublin [n.d., c.1880].
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½").
A central illustration depicts the Solar System with the paths of the orbits of the planets to Saturn (although Uranus and Neptune are mentioned elsewhere) and the routes of comets. Smaller illustrations depict the Moon's phases, the sizes of the planets and the paths of Earth & Venus.
[Ref: 57132] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[The Observatory in Southwark] [Erected 1835 for the British Parallactic Society].
[Drawn & Printed by Charles Bellamy at his Lithographic Office, 20, Bridge House Place, Newington.][c.1835.]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Trimmed losing title and publication line.
A view of the triangular shaped observatory with steps leading to the top where a man stands on the platform next to a flag with "Observatory" on it, a large oblong object lies diagonally across, presumably a telescopic lens; below an open area where figures stand with the houses of Southwark surrounding.
[Ref: 57077] £420.00

Sukey. Thaw.
Published Jan.y 10. 1825 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching. 170 x 145mm (6¾ x 5¾"). Small loss and crease in bottom left corner. Trimmed.
A caricature of a woman with an umbrella, traipsing through a sodden street in the rain. She wears a purple dress and bonnet with a colourful green shawl.
[Ref: 57218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sun] Schema corporis Solaris, prouta P P Kirchero et Scheinero Roma Anno 1635 observatum suit.
[after Athanasius Kircher & Christoph Scheiner.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 200mm. Repairs, time stained. Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margin at top.
A plan of the surface of the sun, based on the work of Jesuits Athanasius Kircher (1601-80) and Christoph Scheiner (c.1573-1650) as published in Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus', 1665. A key labels the solar axis, the solar equator, the northern and southern poles, sunspots and solar prominences (clouds of smoke).
[Ref: 56859] £160.00

Parhelia _ No 2.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
Parhelia (or 'sun dogs') are an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Plate 96 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56789] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipse of the Sun.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
A solar eclipse over a Middle-Eastern landscape. Plate 60 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56790] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Soleil et ses principaux phenomenes. Pl. V.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Large image of the Sun with several sunspots, and smaller diagrams at the top showing the relationship of the Sun and Earth during the day and night and at different seasons. Small vignettes at the bottom give artistic renderings of a Transit of Mercury, The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape of Europe and an Annualar Eclipse. A bar down the left hand side of the main image shows the comparative size of the planets as seen from the Sun and a bar on the right shows the changing appearance of sunspots on different parts of its disc. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56898] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Soleil. De La Sphere. Figure XLVIII.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress. Time stained.
An illustration of the Sun after Kircher, shown above an Italianate landscape. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
The Midnight Sun over the cliffs of North Cape, Norway, visible from 14th May to 31st July. Plate 65 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56788] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The surface and appearance of the Sun.] Astronomy. Plate 3.
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
Four diagrams illuminating the 'Paths of the spots across the disc of the sun at different peiods of the year', 'the zodiacal light', 'solar spots, viewed with high magnifying power' and the 'apparent magnitude of the sun as viewed from the various planets'. Plate 3 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56915] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Magnitude of the Sun, the Primary and Secundary Planets, and the Distances of the Secundaey Planets from their Primary Ones;
Deduced from the Latest Observations by S. Dunn. Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1786.
Engraving with mezzotint detailing. 360 x 560mm (14¼ x 22"), very large margins. Repaired tear in lower centre fold in margin.
A diagram comparing the sizes of the Sun and planets, and illustrating the distances of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn from their satellites. From ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57111] £450.00

Herschel's Forty-Foot Reflecting Telescope. Guide to Knowledge. No. LXXXIII. Price One Penny.
J. Archer sc.
London, Published for the Proprietors, by W. Edwards, No 12 Ave Maria Lane [n.d., 1837].
Wood engraving. Sheet 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small tears top margin.
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, a reflecting telescope constructed 1785-9 at Observatory House in Slough, the largest telescope in the world for 50 years. It was dismantled in 1839 by Herschel's son, John, because of rot in the frame. From Duncan Bradford's 'The Wonders of the Heavens, being a Popular View of Astronomy'.
[Ref: 56833] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Temporary Mounting of an Achromatic Refracting Telescope. Te property of E.J. Cooper Esq.r M.P. Diameter of the Object Glass 13.5 Inches, Focal Length 25 Feet. Object Glass by M Cauchoix of Paris. Mounting and adjustments by Mr Tulley on the premises of Mr Cornfield, Clapham Sept 23rd 1831.
[W. Eldridge lit.g. Printed by Engelmann & Co.]
[c.1831.]
Lithograph, extremely scarce. Image 185 x 170mm (7¼ x 6¾"), title excised and pasted beneath. Trimmed, losing lithographer and printer's names, trimmed around title, pasted on sheet.
A wheeled frame for a telescope.
[Ref: 56828] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Ariel Telescope.
[after Laurent de la Hire.]
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street [n.d., 1757].
Coloured engraving. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
A diagram of a tubeless telescope, from the 'Universal Magazine'.
[Ref: 56824] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Ariel Telescope.
[after Laurent de la Hire.]
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street [n.d., 1757].
Wngraving. 190 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on left, some toning of paper on left edge.
A diagram of a tubeless telescope, from the 'Universal Magazine'.
[Ref: 56826] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tellurion.] Plate VIII.
J. Ferguson delin. J. Mynde sc.
[London: James Ferguson, c.1756.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, as issued, affecting signatures, binding folds.
Three illustrations of a tellurion, a device to depicts how day, night, and the seasons are caused by the rotation and orientation of Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun. From Ferguson's own work, ''Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles''. The title given comes from the text explaining the diagram, which is available in full from Project Gutenburg, at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60619/60619-h/60619-h.htm
[Ref: 56854] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

James Thornton.
J. Zoffany pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
London, printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street, Published as the Act directs, 1.t July 1770.
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"). Some creasing and small tear at top. Small margins.
Portrait of James Thornton, gardener at Kew; within oval frame, eyes to front, wearing flower-patterned waistcoat beneath open coat and short wig. After Johan Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810).
Chaloner Smith 116, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 57083] £320.00

1. Phaenomenon, observ'd near Warrington. 2. Ansty Church. 3. Shulbred Priory. Pl. I.p.641.
Father Paul del.
Gent. Mag. August. 1799.
Engraving, plate 180 x 110mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins. Right edge holes where previously bound.
A series of views published in The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle: a tornado June 16th 1798 that occured in Warrignton, Cheshire, the small rural church of Ansty in Wiltshire and of Shulbred Priory (also known as Woolynchmere Priory) , in West Sussex both places of notable antiquity.
[Ref: 57031] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Triangle with analemma adapted to show the sun's declination for every day in the year in all latitudes.]
[Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie]
[London : Published by James Reynolds. Decr. 7th.1852.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 185mm (8½ x 7¼"). Tip is lightly soiled and creased.
Tool placed in the front inside of Reynold's book 'View of Nature in all Climates, from the Equator to the Arctic Circle' which consisted of a folded colored pictorial diagram engraved by John Emslie and four pages of descriptive text.
[Ref: 56880] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of the Universe by James Wyld Geographer to the Queen. 457 Strand, Charing Cross East, London.
London, Published by Ja.s Wyld Geographer to the Queen 457 West Strand, Charing Cross East [n.d., c.1840].
Engraving. Sheet 435 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"). A little soiling to the edges.
A plate with six illustrations, demonstrating: the seasons; eclipses; the solar system (with Uranus still called 'Herschel') and comets; the size of the sun as seen from each planet; tides; and phases of the Moon.
[Ref: 57125] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vue De Ternate. Suppl, au Tome VIII. N.o 4.
[Jacques Nicolas Bellin]
[n.d., c1750]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), very large margins. Flattened creases where previously bound.
Depiction of Gamalama erupting in the early 1700s with a Portuguese fort shown. Made by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) for Antoine-François Prevost's (1697-1763) 20 volume edition of 'L`Histoire Generale des Voyages' published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague between 1747 - 1780. Gamalama is a near-conical stratovolcano that comprises the entire Ternate island in Indonesia.
[Ref: 57090] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Effect of a Water Spout at Sea. N.o 109.
J.F. Ellis. Pinx.t. H. Dawe. Sculp.
Pub.d April 1832 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town, R. Ackermann Strand & C. Tilt Fleet Street
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½).
A view of a ship on rough seas sailing away from a waterspout.
[Ref: 57034] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of Water Spouts.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7") Trimmed within plate.
A view of waterspouts lettered, presumably once with an explanatory key. Ships sail in the distance
[Ref: 57048] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Phenomena of Water Spouts.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7") Trimmed within plate.
A view of waterspouts lettered, presumably once with an explanatory key. Ships sail in the distance
[Ref: 57050] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Waterfalls
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie 1846.
London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; Reeves & Sons; Rock & Co; Peacock & Mansfield. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamps on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon' and 'Broughton Hall West Derby.'
Data visulisation of waterfall heights with key; from Reynolds series 'Introduction to Natural Philosophy', a companion to Reynolds's series of Popular diagrams of natural philosophy comprising of two hundred and fifty illustrations.
[Ref: 56879] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A New Weather Table. constructed upon a Philosophical consideration of the attraction of the Sun and Moon...
[n.d., c.1820.]
Fine coloured engraving on card. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). A little surface wear. Very small loss on right.
A diagram for weather forecasting based on the positions of the sun and moon.
[Ref: 56800] £360.00

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 136

Catalogue 135

Catalogue 134

Advanced Search